Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Running or Booting Dos Radio Programs in - with Windows 98se

[Ralph Mowery]

--- On Sun, 1/18/09, Dennis Wade <sacramento.cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dennis Wade <sacramento.cycl...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Running or Booting Dos Radio Programs in 
> -  with Windows 98se
> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 8:29 PM
> OK...thanks Cort.  I am left wondering (and
> confused..nothing unusual
> there..lol) as to how a 2.4 ghz "modern" machine
> can successfully run
> DOS-based Moto RSS, for one reason the UART/serial port
> issues.  I've
> tried a "modern" (i.e. both a 1ghz PIII and a
> celeron) Win98SE machine
> booted to DOS as Jim Brown describes to run Moto RSS with
> no joy.  My
> ancient PI Acer desktop booted to DOS (about 160 mhz) works
> like a
> charm.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
>       Dennis
> 

Old softwear may not run on a fast computer due to timming issues with the 
serial ports.  I have forgotten the exect reason, but is something like the 
fast computer polls the serial port somany times.  The faster computer does 
this before the new data is present on the serial port.  The softwear should 
have been written so the serial port would interrupt the program as would be 
the more normal practice.
At work we have the same problem with some of the instrumentaion and inverters 
that are programmed with a laptop.